I have perhaps an odd request here. Is there a way for me to extract the audio portion of a program? For example, Charlie Rose which is a talk show. I would like to download the audio from these shows to my Ipod nano... don't need the video. I've looked through some of the encoding profiles and it isn't clear to me what to change to pull out just the audio, if that's possible.

Thanks again!

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That's pretty easy. Under the "encode" folder of kmttg installation create a new encoding profile for example called ff_mp3_only.enc with the following which makes an mp3 file (audio only):

I cannot get the kmttg service to start no matter what I do! I'm running WinXP and even turned my firewall off but still nothing, I have the latest version kmttg v0p7e.
Tivo Desktop Plus works fine but I really would like to use this program instead.
Any ideas?
Here is the error message I receive:
>> Getting Now Playing List from Bedroom ...
"C:\Program Files\kmttg_v0p7e\curl\curl.exe" --retry 3 --anyauth --globoff --user tivo:MAK --insecure --cookie-jar C:\DOCUME~1\MYPROF~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\cookie6780652356841302297.tmp --url https://192.168.0.182/TiVoConnect?C...tainer=/NowPlaying&Recurse=Yes&AnchorOffset=0 --output C:\DOCUME~1\MYPROF~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\NPL2085983814210174880.tmp
NPL job completed: 00:00:02
---DONE---
18 SHOWS, 107 GB USED

Quaxtro, the problem is your TiVo is returning <h2>Server Busy</h2>. Make sure that TiVo Desktop is disabled and if you keep getting Server Busy message then from kmttg choose File->Reset TiVo web server and try again. If still no luck reboot your TiVo and then it should work.

Quaxtro, the problem is your TiVo is returning <h2>Server Busy</h2>. Make sure that TiVo Desktop is disabled and if you keep getting Server Busy message then from kmttg choose File->Reset TiVo web server and try again. If still no luck reboot your TiVo and then it should work.

kmttg is finally (sort of) working for me. However it failed twice at around 2GB of transfer each time.
I have a 1TB NTFS drive (WinXP) with 350GB free space!
btw - I cannot get kmttg started as a service. Windows keeps giving me error messages.
Any help figuring this out would be greatly appreciated!

Quaxtro, you probably have a firewall or anti virus software such as Kaspersky which is limiting file sizes to 2GB.
A tip when posting such a long log on this forum it's best to enclose the text in code tags, that way post won't take up so much room and will add a scrollbar to the text.

Quaxtro, you probably have a firewall or anti virus software such as Kaspersky which is limiting file sizes to 2GB.
A tip when posting such a long log on this forum it's best to enclose the text in code tags, that way post won't take up so much room and will add a scrollbar to the text.

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Oh. I see what you are saying about the scrolling! Sorry about that! Next time I will post my log results properly.

Yes I'am using Kaspersky Internet Security 7! Do you have any idea which settings need to be adjusted to let Kaspersky let me download any file size I want?

Oh. I see what you are saying about the scrolling! Sorry about that! Next time I will post my log results properly.

Yes I'am using Kaspersky Internet Security 7! Do you have any idea which settings need to be adjusted to let Kaspersky let me download any file size I want?

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Search for Kaspersky in bdktv's excellent FAQ as it has a blurb about how to make exceptions for certain tools with Kaspersky:http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=419994
I don't use that on any other anti virus software so can't help you with details. You may have to make curl & java trusted applications for Kaspersky to get it to work, or just disable it completely.

Forgive me if I'm way off track here and please bare with me while I explain...

Reading through a number of old posts it seems that we've had the ability for a while now to transfer TS formatted files from the Tivo rather than the default PS format. This gave us faster downloads but is next to useless because TivoDecode can't decode it. Well, as of the latest beta version of VideoReDo it can now play, edit and convert TS formatted Tivo files. I have tried this with a number of TS files I've manually downloaded from the Tivo and it seems to convert them with no problems (except for scrambled thumbnail views which the authors are apparently aware).

So my question is whether kmttg can have an option of downloading the TS formatted files, use VideoRedo to do the decrypting and then proceed as currently for commercial editing, re-encoding etc. For this to work, VideoRedo would need to be able to decrypt at the command line, which I don't know whether it can. Alternatively, you could bypass the decrypting step and go straight to the GUI for commercial (or top/tail) editing, then automatically save to mpg (or other format) and then return to kmttg.

I did a direct comparison with a small 1/2hr show which took 17mins to download the TS versus 28mins for the PS. Obviously, the savings in time would be much more significant for longer recordings.

The downside would be reliance on a commercial program but since a lot of people seem to use VideoRedo (and kmttg already has it as an option for commercial editing) it might still benefit a lot of people.

BTW I noticed someone from Aus has logged a feature request at the sourceforge.net for TivoDecode to support TS files, but I don't know how active those guys are. So maybe VideoRedo could be an interim solution?

Anway, just a thought.

Mike
P.S. I have an Australian Tivo, where TD now defaults to the TS version, but if this is at all possible and worthwhile, then it could help everyone.

mikek2, I have not been able to get TiVo DirectShow filter to work with TS formatted TiVo files here in USA. Windows Media Player is not able to play them (and hence directly related VRD is not able to load them either). I'm using the latest beta version of VRD Plus:http://www.videoredo.net/beta/VideoReDoPlusM-3-10-1-587.exe

I was thinking maybe a short clip of a TS formatted TiVo file would be good to look at, but since it's tied to an individual MAK ID it wouldn't do me much good I don't think. Still would be interesting to look at to compare to what I get here in USA. If that's not possible then wondering if you can give me the output of mediainfo on a TS TiVo file that would be interesting to see.

Regarding your request yes I think it should be doable perhaps by giving an option to skip decrypt step and go straight to VRD QS Fix. Will have to try it with PS TiVo files.

Question:
Should I be encoding my downloads using the ff_h264_high_rate profile before pushing back to my Tivo? Would this speed up the transfers?

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It would speed up the pushes themselves quite significantly, however encoding to H.264 is very time consuming and each time you re-encode you are degrading quality, so I would not recommend it if your source files are already in mpeg2 format.

It would speed up the pushes themselves quite significantly, however encoding to H.264 is very time consuming and each time you re-encode you are degrading quality, so I would not recommend it if your source files are already in mpeg2 format.

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Thanks - That's what I was afraid of (quality degradation). I'll leave things as they are.